HPE BladeSystem vs. Lenovo Flex System Blade Servers

HPE BladeSystem is functional for standard Windows and ESXi host usage. Although the design is over a decade old, its parts are up to current with today's processors and networks. BladeSystem is not suitable for applications that necessitate local storage, hyper-converged, or any other type of specialized PCI cards. Some of these use cases are better suited to the HPE Synergy platform, however that design is not without its own limitations.

Incentivized

Smaller environments may not get the benefit of a BladeCenter. If you only have a few servers, it would be cost effective to just purchase individual servers. If you need to share a SANS, need high-level uptime and redundancy, or just have a need for lots of servers, then a BladeCenter would be beneficial.

Incentivized

• It ensures substantial process and system security in terms of infrastructure by keeping things running smoothly all the time.
• There are few things that are more helpful in day-to-day living than having straightforward controls and configurations.
• Capacity to keep a highly redundant system operating reliably.

Incentivized

• Physical disks management
• Integration with VM
• Ethernet scalability without any lost compression.

Incentivized

• When using virtual connect, you, and not the network team, are in charge of managing the local area network and wide area network.
• In terms of fan management, when only a portion of the Blade Enclosure is in use, it is imperative that all Blades be located in the same area.
• It's not easy and is somewhat dated to manage FW.

Incentivized

• I wish we'd used this BladeCenter more because it simplifies IT.
• It could be my browser, IE. I click and wait till the screen updates and changes so I can do specific actions.
• If there's an urgent alert at night, I'd rather get an SMS.

Incentivized

We do not intend to make new investments in HPE BladeSystem as it is in the end-of-life phase and we have continued with the new HPE Synergy environment. It is therefore not a process of discarding, but of evolution. This environment will possibly continue to be used in the institution, but for less critical purposes and more related to the development of new solutions.

Incentivized

They are reliable, safe and very profitable equipment, their operation is easy, they provide high availability as all their components are redundant and thus the continuity of the operation can be guaranteed wherever they are installed, in addition to having the option of gradual growth, you can start with a single node and grow until the chassis is full.

Incentivized

Incorporating HPE Blades Systems In order to house 16 physical servers, you just need 10 rack units instead of 32, which reduces the amount of heat produced and, in turn, the cost to cool the site. To have multiple Esx servers that can all be managed centrally, VMware virtualization is a must. HPE Blade Systems simplify the administration of several servers. You can develop pretty great projects with Onboard admin and Virtual connect. Virtualization is the best option.

Incentivized

I find that IBM/Lenovo servers are more robustly constructed and provide more comprehensive online technical specifications, which are useful for troubleshooting and budgeting purposes. Their gear is strong, solid, and trustworthy. Hardware problems are extremely rare for us. IBM/customer Lenovo's service is top-notch; it's always quick to respond and really helpful. Support doesn't have you answer a lot of questions before helping you. Since they recognize you as a server administrator with some amount of expertise, they can converse with you at that level.

Incentivized

• The number of ports required for connectivity to 16 physical server is reduced with BladeSystem, without compromising flexibility - so there is a 16x savings on the number of ports required on physical switching infrastructure.
• In-place upgrades to newer hardware are accommodated by virtualized MAC addresses and WWN's in the fabric of the BladeSystem.
• On a couple occasions, large scale outages have affected the environment because of an issue at the core of BladeSystem. Users should be aware of the fault domain caused by a single chassis and plan accordingly. Our issues were mitigated due to a second, separate chassis where we spread workloads.

Incentivized

• This has been a positive return on investment due to improved resource utilization in the data center
• An opportunity to generate savings.
• Invest it in other operational needs.

Incentivized